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Not all students will be ready for written response, and in fact you may want to steer clear of this kind of response entirely in kindergarten. Or, show the frame on an interactive whiteboard or chart and construct the response together. By the beginning of second grade, most students should be ready for this written step. In fact, by midyear in Grade 1, many students should be developmentally capable of writing their own answers to comprehension questions with these frames to scaffold their thinking. Beware of overusing these frames, however. What begins as a critical step in the journey toward independence in written response can quietly lead to dependence if we don’t wean students off this scaffold. Students can get too comfortable with these handy-dandy frames, which organize their thoughts for them; they need to learn to use these frames as models to organize their own thinking.